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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹一弓木 (HMND), four-corner 88904, composition)

  1. build, erect
  2. building

References

  • KangXi: page 892, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1320, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2998, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7BC9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːɡ, *tuːɡ, *tuɡ
*tuːɡ
*tuɡ
*tuɡ, *duɡ
*tuɡ
*tuɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuɡ) : phonetic  (OC *tuɡ, *duɡ) + semantic  (wood) – built from wood.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhù
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*truk/
English pound earth, build

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17591
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuɡ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to build; to construct

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. fabricate

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chuk) (hangeul , revised chuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trốc, trúc)

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